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Season 4 - Episode 98 - The stories of the day dictate the next day… · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happen to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, welcome to the nightly ritual of putting the
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  chickens away. So tonight we are talking about
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  stories that we tell ourselves during the day and how at the
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  end of every day, we kind of sum up our in our head, what
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  happened about the day through the day and we kind of make a
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  conclusion about that. So we all do it.
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  We do it very unconsciously. We're like, oh, it's the end of
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  the day. I find myself walking out here
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  and I'm like, OK, I want to sum it up.
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  Is it a good day? Was it a decent day?
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  Was it an off day? How am I feeling about the day?
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  So many thoughts are ruminating in my head running around and
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  the conclusion that I come to about this day is going to
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  affect the next day. There's no question about it.
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  So if I feel like I just, this was a bad day, I can't wait to
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  sweep it under the table and I don't shake it off and take it,
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  you know, away from my head. I will end up taking that with
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  me for the next day. And that's one thing that I do
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  not want to do. I never want to take and carry
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  over one day into the next because that is unresourceful.
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  So it's always about what can I do in order to like make sure I
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  am shaking off the crap of that day.
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  That is such a big piece of, of the, the dedicated work that one
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  has to do to make sure we are okay mentally with one day to
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  the next to the next to the next.
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  Because if you think about it, we are stringing together all
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  these different parts of ourselves throughout the week.
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  And those the week becomes the month and the month becomes the
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  year. And before you know it, you're
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  in a certain spot and you're looking back on the year and
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  you're going, well, this year sucked.
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  And it's all based on how do we sum up the end of each day?
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  What are we taking to the next day with us?
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  So as you start to contemplate it, it, it's a very important
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  decision to say, OK, I'm going to debrief my day.
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  What are the facts that what happened, not just the emotions
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  about what happened. What are the facts of what
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  happened? So while I was walking out here
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  and getting ready for this, I was thinking about, you know, I,
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  I accomplished an awful lot today in one area and I
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  accomplished nothing in another area.
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  And I put it all aside because I have so much work.
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  I can only, you know, focus on it at a certain point in time.
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  But recently I've had family thing that has just taken me in
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  a different direction. My daughter had a baby, so I've
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  been helping out with taking food, cooking something that is
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  not my skill set for her, and really working on my cooking
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  skills. So I've been getting up very
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  early, cooking meals and being able to take them over and drop
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  them off and helping her out when I can in between sessions,
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  setting aside time and helping her, you know, straighten out
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  her house and do all this. And that to me is the highest
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  priority right now. Working on other stuff,
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  marketing, working, you know, on building out product for the
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  company that's all on a back burner right now.
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  So I could sit there and say, oh, I'm behind.
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  I could do that, but I'm not, I could say I, we fell behind
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  because of this. No, I feel like I'm way ahead
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  because I'm taking the time to do the things that are important
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  and it's forcing me actually to learn to cook, which I think is
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  kind of awesome because I'm not necessarily someone who likes to
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  cook. I like to bake, but I don't, I
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  have historically not like to cook, but this family thing,
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  this has really put me in a position where I'm OK, I'm going
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  to do this because this is the thing to do.
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  And thank goodness for Mr. Christopher Kimball and Milk St.
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  cooking book cookbooks and they are outstanding.
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  And I've been making some great, great food for her, which I feel
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  proud of myself. So at the end of the day, I can
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  debrief that I'm behind, but I can also debrief that I'm way
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  ahead in another category. And that category is way more
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  important. So assigning it the level of
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  importance, it also helps you understand you are making
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  progress in the areas that matter most, which are the
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  personal ones, the things that you know are going to be the
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  important ones at the end of your life, the end of your days.
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  Now granted, I'm going to get back to the other stuff, I'm
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  going to make it work, but right now this is the priority.
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  So when you start to delineate your days, make sure you're
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  taking into consideration those facts.
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  Make sure you're taking into consideration how everything
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  piles up because what's important is how many lives did
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  you touch? What's important is how many
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  people did you make smile? What's important is did you, did
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  you fill your soul up? Because that's what will always
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  make the difference in the end. That's what will always make the
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  difference. So debrief, check in, make sure
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  you're not carrying it over day-to-day with you, and give
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  yourself a huge mental hug for knowing you did that job well.
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  Because guess what? That's what matters.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you all tomorrow. Bye.